Home Made, Zero Heat, Cold Pressed Virgin Coconut Oil

Wanted to buy some Virgin Coconut Oil and went to the neighborhood Giant Supermarket and they don't carry it at this particular store.  On the spot, decided to make my own. So I went to the Mamak Grocer behind the Giant and purchased 5 freshly grated coconuts.  More than half the work was done here as they have a coconut grating machine.  Imagine doing it by hand!

Coconut Pile

The worker splitting the coconut in two.

Split Coconut 

Grating the Coconut

Immediately, returned home and started the process of extracting the oil.  Placed the 5 grated coconut in a large bowl.

Grated Coconut

Than added lukewarm water and extracted the coconut milk.  Repeated the process twice to get the maximum milk out of the coconut.  Once finished squeezing the milk out of the coconut meat with a wire strainer, I strained it again with a finer strainer. I kept the grated coconut, as will be making coconut flour than I will use to make other stuff with it.  Nothing goes to waste.

Squeezing the Milk form the Coconut

Than I placed the Coconut milk in plastic bags and kept it aside for about 2 hours.  This is to separate the cream (where the oil is) and the water.

Separating the Coconut Water and the Cream

After about 2 hours the cream can be seen floating at the top and the water at the bottom.  I removed the water by cutting a hole at the bottom corner of the plastic bag and collected the water in a container.  Will use it when making nasi lemak tomorrow.

Cream and water Separated

Next I placed the milk in a container and used a mixer and stir the cream for about 15 minutes.  Didn't want to do it by hand.

Using a Mixer to stir the cream.

Next I placed the container in a cool place and let it sit for slightly more than 24 hours.  After that, the oil can be seen between the layers created via a fermentation process. 

Oil at the top left hand side

Oil above the water and the white stuff

Next, I used a spoon to scoop up the oil, put it thru a funnel that I had put come cotton in the funnel to strain out and impurities.

And there you have it, Homemade Cold Pressed Virgin Coconut Oil! 

 Virgin Coconut Oil in a Bottle

There was still some oil in the container that I couldn't scoop out.  Being brought up in Penang, I need to get every bit of oil out of the container.  What I did was place the container in the fridge for slightly less than an hour and let the top layer solidify.  I removed the top layer and placed it in a pan.

Solidified Cream/Oil in a pan

Put on the fire and reduced the heat once started boiling.

Reduce heat once start simmering

In about 20 minutes, the oil was done.  Took shorter time as most of the moisture has already been discarded in the earlier process.

Oil is done.

 Used a regular strainer, and put the oil in a jar to cool it down.

Cooling the oil in a Jar

 Finally, placed cotton in the funnel to filter and strain out any sediment left behind.

Straining Sediments

 There we have it, Coconut oil!!

Coconut Oil